Name: Mark.
Occupation: Mechanic shop owner / designer.
About Mark’s beard:
I love my beard because it’s empowering and it commands attention. It’s also unique and gives a great sense of character. I don’t want to look like anyone else and, since every beard is unique, it gives me that.
Mechanic and shop owner, artist and designer, and bearded: great combination!
Click on any photo above to view a larger version of Mark’s photos.
All about beards is happy to announce our Today’s Beard section, planned to be a daily beard shout out and beard salute. It’s an honor to introduce Ben today as the first to appear in beards.org’s Today’s Beard! Each post will feature a photo gallery and information about the man and the beard.
Visit beards.org’s Today’s Beard section anytime to see the bearded men who have been recognized there for being a part of the bearded cause and bearded brotherhood.
All about beards is proud to inaugurate our new “Today’s Beard” feature with Ben! We plan to do a daily beard shout out and salute. Here is our first beard salute to Ben.
Name: Ben
Occupation: High Voltage Electrician
About Ben’s beard:
Today Ben has been growing his beard for four months. He is one third of the way to his goal of a yeard (year beard). Ben says that he feels very comfortable in his beard.
Click on any photo above to view a larger version. The first two photos are at three months. The others are at four months.
Welcome, new beard growers!
Today is the beginning of No-Shave November 2016. It is a perfect opportunity for you to try out your beard-growing ability. We are happy to welcome new beard growers into the bearded brotherhood. Beards.org is here to encourage, inspire, and guide you through the beard-growing process. You will never know how your beard will turn out unless you give it a chance to grow out.
Go ahead and grow your beard! No-Shave November, however, is just the beginning. To do your new beard justice, you should keep it growing into December and beyond. Each beard is unique as is its rate of growth. For most men, just one month of beard-growing will not be enough to produce optimum results. Give your new beard more time before making a decision on whether or not to keep it. We hope you will stay with it and become yet another successful beard grower!
Now to get started on your beard the right way, go check out our tried-and-true instructions on how to grow your beard! Good luck and enjoy your new beard-growing adventure!
Although this book by Christopher Oldstone-Moore on the history of facial hair came out in December of last year, I’ve not yet had the opportunity to read it. I will now be reading it a time or two and will write a proper review of the book. Meanwhile, if you are curious to learn more right now, take a look at the book on Amazon using the link below. The book is now available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle versions.
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This beards.org photo shoot with Scott took place three miles from Prince’s Paisley Park. And I did not know it at the time. What’s more is that I’d driven right by Paisley Park on the way to and from the photo shoot without even noticing it. I was a visitor to the area.
Scott wanted a photo shoot at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. He even sprang for the fee for the Arboretum’s photography permit. It was a perfect location for a photo shoot. Little did I know, however, that we were in Prince’s neighborhood.
Following the shock of Prince’s sudden passing this week, I was curious to learn more about his Paisley park studio and residence. I was surprised to discover that it is right next to Arboretum Boulevard, the main route to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.  According to Google maps, it is a distance of three miles from Paisley Park to the Arboretum.
I never would have been considered to be a big Prince fan. I liked “1999” and “Little Red Corvette” well enough to buy the album. Apart from that, I was familiar with some of his music by hearing it played on the radio. But I did not really follow him.
I never saw Prince with a beard. I took notice when he appeared with surprisingly dense stubble, sculpted into designer shapes. I would have liked to see him grow it all out at least once.
Now that he is suddenly gone, I’ve learned a lot more about him. I admire his fierce independence as well as his extraordinary musical talent. What really surprised and pleased me were the numerous accounts of the many ways he interacted with and remained a part of his hometown community.
I’ve gained a new appreciation for Prince and wish that I’d done so while he was still alive. I’m sorry that I passed by his house twice in one day without even knowing it was there or that he might have been there.
Rest in peace, Prince Rogers Nelson.
All about beards is very proud to announce our first Spanish-language video on YouTube! If you don’t know Spanish, it’s no problem. There are English captions available. Just click on “CC” on the YouTube player to enable them. Regardless of language, the video is a tribute to our good friend Vincent and his spectacular beard. Congratulations, Vincent!
Click on the image above to view the video directly on YouTube. Or you can watch the embedded video below:
It’s got to be better. Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned to beards.org for more.
Dennis, beards.org’s famous “truly outstanding beard” man, has occupied a place of honor in the beards.org logo in the upper left corner of the site for years. No one else’s beard had ever been seen in that spot…until recently.
With the launch of Paul’s beard feature, his comment about rivaling the “truly outstanding beard” man stuck with me. Soon, I decided to try out the unthinkable: replace the “truly outstanding beard” man with Paul in the logo. At first, I thought the switch would mainly be done for fun. But once Paul was up there, I have been thinking of leaving the changed logo there for the foreseeable future.
Of course, no one could ever actually replace Dennis, the “truly outstanding beard” man. He is definitely a beard hall-of-famer.
